UK gilt selloff triggers pension cash calls in first big test since 2022 crisis
Some British pension funds are being told by asset managers to come up with more cash to support their hedging positions ...
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Mortgage rates to rise above 5 per cent piling more pressure on Reeves
Average two-year and five-year fixed deals for those with 25 per cent equity or deposit are now expected to rise above 5 per ...
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Is now a good time to buy UK housebuilders?
Recent share price falls could make UK housebuilder stocks undervalued, though there is a great deal of market uncertainty to ...
Fresh woes for pound and long-term borrowing costs after US data
There's more bad news for the chancellor to digest on her trade mission to China as financial market moves continue to weigh on her stewardship of the economy.
Putting some perspective on Britain’s bad markets week
Wednesday was a bad day for Great British assets: sterling and gilts both fell at the same time, which is generally and reasonably seen as being not good. Barclays’ economists write that Reeves’ ...
Bond sell-off driven by Trump's threat to implement tariffs, say economists
The cost of long-term government borrowing climbed again on Friday, sitting just below the historic highs reached in recent ...
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Four options for Reeves to balance the books as Treasury braces for mini-Budget
Rachel Reeves is looking for ways to tackle borrowing costs in order to grow the economy - here are four options available to ...
UK borrowing costs have hit their highest level since the banking crisis. An economist explains what’s happening
UK borrowing costs have risen rapidly to their highest level since the banking crisis of 2007-08, with implications for the government’s tax and spending plans. Yields on gilts, as UK government bonds ...
UK inflation highest among G7 countries as energy costs buoy prices
The UK has continued to have one of the highest inflation rates in the G7, mainly driven by rising energy prices and ongoing ...